Dani Alves: ‘Everyone says I’m old but I disagree. I have maturity from living’

11-Jul-2022 10:47:33 | The Guardian

Brazil full-back recently turned 39 and is without a club but remains determined to play for his country at the World Cup

Dani Alves has lived many different moments. As he prepares to play in a third World Cup, the full-back is disappointed with world events and social problems. The hope for a better society in the face of Covid-19 has become frustrating, with an increase of attitudes he considers unacceptable.

“People have lost the fear of the death and the respect also,” he says. “Nothing has changed, unfortunately … I wish it had changed a lot of things, but it didn’t. We are coming out of the pandemic and everyone thought things were going to change, but what happened was a war.